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Resistance passives are commonly allocated nodes on most trees, sitting on paths toward the outer wheels. A PoE The Red Nightmare Carry turns that investment into free Block Chance, doing work that would otherwise need a separate cluster of dedicated block nodes. Choosing Foulborn changes the equation: those same passives stop leaking into defense and start converting Fire Damage into Chaos Damage outright, while a second swapped line makes Fire hits roll for damage twice over whenever a recent Block has happened.
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Affix |
Gameplay Effect |
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Gain (6-10)% of Fire Damage as Extra Chaos Damage |
A slice of every Fire hit deals a second damage type on top |
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Passives granting Fire Resistance or all Elemental Resistances in Radius also grant Chance to Block Attack Damage at 50% of its value |
Turns resistance nodes you’ve already taken into free Attack Block Chance |
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Limited to: 1 |
Only one copy of this jewel can be socketed at once |
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Radius: Large |
Covers a wide stretch of tree around the jewel’s socket |
Buy PoE The Red Nightmare Boost while your build’s tree already has resistance nodes sitting near a jewel socket ready to make use of it. Reach out with your league, character, and preferred version, base or Foulborn, and this exact jewel arrives on your account before you’d finish reading through the passive tree changes yourself.
Any allocated passive granting Fire Resistance, or one of the broader nodes granting all three Elemental Resistances at once, qualifies as long as it sits inside the jewel’s radius. A node granting only Cold or Lightning Resistance falls outside what this jewel reads, so the wheels a character routes through matter for how much value the jewel pulls in.
Lucky damage rolls the hit’s value twice and keeps the higher result, raising average damage over a long fight. On the Foulborn jewel, that roll only applies to Fire hits, and only while a Block has landed recently, so keeping some Block Chance active elsewhere matters more once this version is socketed.
It can, once combined with other Block sources the build already runs, since all Block Chance from every source adds together up to that shared cap. A character already close to the cap through a shield or tree investment sees smaller returns from this jewel than one starting near zero.